Posted By John Henderson On November 18, 2012 @ 8:29 am In Football,Pac-12,University of Colorado | 2 Comments

Cal coach Jeff Tedford. (Greg Wahl-Stephens, Associated Press)

BOULDER — Colorado’s season ends Friday against visiting Utah and the biggest question at the final buzzer will be what assistant coaches survive what could go down as the worst season in school history.

Neither had ever been sole coordinators before taking these jobs last year and it has become woefully clear second-year coach Jon Embree, who’d also never even been a coordinator, needs more experience.

Before Saturday’s 38-3 loss to Washington, I heard from school insiders that Jeff Tedford is on Colorado’s radar.

California athletic director Sandy Barbour could fire him during their expected meeting Sunday (Update: Tedford was fired from Cal on Tuesday[2]). Cal’s Saturday night 62-14 loss at Oregon State left the Golden Bears 3-9, Tedford’s worst record in his 10 years at Cal and the school’s worst since Tom Holmoe’s 1-10 squad in 2001, which ushered in Tedford.

It’s no certainty Bieniemy will get fired. He’s the only assistant on campus with a multi-year contract and he is one of Embree’s best friends. He could get reassigned. But the offense has failed to achieve any identity, let alone production, and Tedford helped produce dynamic quarterbacks at Oregon and Cal before hitting a major slump these last three years.

Whether he could do that with the likes of Jordan Webb, Nick Hirschman or Connor Wood would be the ultimate challenge of his career.

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